Magick Lantern Cycle

Magick Lantern Cycle. Kenneth Anger, 1947-1981.
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Edition screened: BFI Blu-ray, released 2009. English language. Cumulative runtime approximately 168 minutes.

Summary: Invocation of My Demon Brother includes images of a murdered cat.

Anger’s Magick Lantern Cycle compiles:
Fireworks (1947)
Puce Moment (1949)
Rabbit’s Moon (1970 and 1979 versions)
Eau d’artifice (1953)
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954)
Scorpio Rising (1964)
Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965)
Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969)
Lucifer Rising (1981)

In addition to the nine films of the Cycle (including both versions of Rabbit’s Moon) the BFI release also includes Anger’s exploration of paintings of Aleister Crolwley The Man We Want to Hang (2002, 14 minutes), along with Elio Gelmini’s documentary on the director, Anger Me (2006, 71 minutes).

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